By Loren Davis

Any religion or philosophy that does not believe in the God of the Bible and Jesus Christ is Baal.

Baal religion began with Nimrod. Nimrod means, ‘he rebelled’ or literally, ‘he returned to Baal’ or Satan.

The people of Babylon built the Tower of Babel, which was a tower to their god Baal. Ge. 11:2

NIMROD WAS SAID TO BE THE SUN GOD

*Genesis 10:8-12 NIMROD’s kingdom was BABEL

After Nimrod died, HIS BODY was cut up and BURNED, and his ashes were sent throughout the land.(Judges 19:29). This is when cremation started. After Nimrod’s death, his wife Semaramis bore a son she named TAMMUZ. She told the people that Tammuz was “Nimrod reborn” or REINCARNATED. Semaramis claimed that her son was supernaturallyconceived and that he was the promised seed, the “savior”. She, through Satan, must have heard of the coming Messiah to be born of a woman .

As the Babylonian religion developed, not only was the child Tammuz worshipped, but also his mother Semmaramis. Nimrod was greatly mourned among the people, and his wife told the people that he was now THE SUN GOD. They now began to teach that FIRE was HIS REPRESENTATION on earth. The people started symbolically BURNING CANDLES as a part of their worship to Nimrod. Burning candles now became a religious ritual in Baal worship.

Baal was also symbolized BY TREES, PILLARS, ANIMALS, FISH, (The Fish god was Dagon)), and SUN IMAGES. The Babylonian religion was formed around thetraditions set up by Nimrod, his wife Semaramis, and her child Tammuz. Since Tammuz was proclaimed “the reincarnation of Nimrod”, Tammuz was also recognized as the SUN GOD. TAMMUZ WAS KNOWN in Baal AS THE “SON” OF GOD.

BAAL-ZEBUB

The word Baalzebub comes from its root word BAAL.

*II Kings 1:2 talks of BAALZEBUB, the god of Ekron.” Notice the spelling,BAAL-zebub.

IN THE NEW TESTAMENT

*Matthew 12:24 “But when the Pharisees heard it, they said of Jesus, That He casts out devils by BEELZEBUB THE PRINCE OF THE DEVILS.”Beelzebub is another name for Satan.So Baal worship is disguised Satan Worship.

During the time of the Great Tribulation, the Bible says that SATAN WILL DEMAND TO BE WORSHIPPED OPENLY AND EXCLUSIVELY. Revelation 13:4

THE SPREADING OF BAAL WORSHIP

*Genesis 11: 1-9 tells us that God scattered the people because of their desire to return to idolatry and to build the tower of Babel which was to Baal. GOD confused the language and DISPERSED THE People of Babylon. Wherever they went they spread THE BAAL RELIGION. As people were scattered throughout the earth they took with them their worship of “mother and child” and the idols and symbols of Baal. The BABYLON religion of BAAL WAS THE SOURCE OF ALL PRIMITIVE RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD.

The name Baal was connected to cities where Canaanite gods were worshiped like Baal-Peor. Baal Worship in Canaan centered around Baal as both THE SUN GOD and THE STORM GOD.

HERE ISHOW TO IDENTIFY BAAL WORSHIP IN RELIGION AND SOCIETY TODAY

Although the word Baal is hardly ever heard today, this ancient religion is very much alive and thriving throughout the world . It can be identified today by its ancient symbolswhich have been integrated into religious and secular architecture, monuments, images, pictures, music, mores, culture, and doctrines. The names may have changed, but the symbols, beliefs, and mores are very identifiable. They are exactly the same as they have always been. They have never changed!

DIFFERENT BAAL DENOMINATIONS

The Baal religion is as diverse as Christianity with all of its denominations. In The Northern Kingdom of Israel under the leadership of Ahab and Jezebel, BAAL became THE STATE GOD.

*1 Kings 16:31 speaking of Ahab says, “that he took to WIFE JEZEBEL and went and SERVED BAAL, and worshipped him.”

SCRIPTURES PROFILING THE RELIGION OF BAAL

*2 Kings 23:5 is the primary scripture to identify Baal Worship. “And he put down the IDOLATROUS PRIESTS, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to BURN INCENSETO THE SUN, THE MOON, AND THE PLANETS, (astrology), and to all THE HOST OF HEAVEN” (the departed dead or ANCESTOR WORSHIP). Burning incense, worship of the sun, moon, astrology, and ancestor worship are all earmarks of the Baal religion.

*Romans 1:25 “Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and WORSHIPPED AND SERVED THE CREATURE MORE THAN THE CREATOR”.

THIS IS A PROFILE OF PRACTICES, DOCTRINES, AND SYMBOLS OF BAAL WORSHIP

Revelation 2:14 “THE DOCTRINES OF BAAL”

They worshipped THE STORM GOD

Baal was the Lord of the Canaanite religion. BAAL was seen in THUNDERSTORMS as the STORM GOD, THUNDER, LIGHTNING. They would SACRIFICE HUMAN BEINGS, usually BURNING THEM ALIVE to appease Baal to help their crops. 2 Kings 16:3,

BURNED INCENSE

*Jeremiah 7:9 “Will ye steal BURN INCENSE TO BAAL

3.SUN WORSHIP

*Ezekiel 8:16 “WORSHIPPED THE SUN”.

*Deuteronomy 17:3-5 "And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped the sun, or moon.

THE SWASTIKAthe Nazis used is an ancient SYMBOL OF THE SUN. That symbol is found in many ancient societies worldwide.

b.The PYRAMIDS of Egypt were built to the SUN GOD Ra.

They also worshipped mountains, which were in the likeness of a pyramid. Jn 4:20

They built OBELISKS(A TOWER that came to a point) These originated at THE TOWER OF BABEL. Ge 11:4-9.

The SHARP POINT POINTS TO THE SUN. These were BUILT TO THE SUN GOD.They also symbolize male virility. This symbol was indicative that the society where it was erected had no moral restraints and worshipped the sun god.

The Baal worshippers put a BRIGHT GLOW BEHIND PICTURES of their gods and a CIRCLE AROUND their RELIGIOUS FIGURES OR SYMBOLS. The sun symbols were their main deity symbols. By doing this they could steathily integrate with local deities and cultures wherever they went without being detected. Most think that the glow behind the picture of Jesus and Mary is the glory of God. It is not! It is the sun and symbolizes the integration of Christianity with Baal worship.

SUN SYMBOLSWERE PLACED OVER THE ENTRANCE OF THE BAAL TEMPLES and above THEIR ALTARS. These images would be circular in design, with different variations. They all represented the sun. The Baal worshippers put the sun images at the entrance of a temple and above the altars was to drive away evil spirits.

They worshipped the MOON

*2 Kings 23:5“burned incense to…THE MOON”.

WORSHIP OF THE STARS AND PLANETS 2 Kings 23:5

THE ZODIAC, THE HOROSCOPE Isaiah 47:10-14

*2 Kings 21:6…“OBSERVED TIMES, and USED ENCHANTMENTS, …hewrought MUCH WICKEDNESS in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.”

WITCHCRAFT

*2 Chronicles 33:6 “they used ENCHANTMENTS, and used WITCHCRAFT, and dealt with A FAMILIAR SPIRIT, and with WIZARDS: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.”

SORCERYActs 8:9

BAAL HAD PROPHETS or seers.I Kings 18:40, Acts 13:6

A prophet of Baal IS A SORCERER.

ANCESTOR WORSHIP,Acts 7:42, 2 Kings 23:5

They buried RELICS AND BONES IN TEMPLES

*Jeremiah 8:1-2 “At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out THE BONES OF THE KINGS of Judah, and the bones of his PRINCES, and the bones of the PRIESTS, and the bones of the PROPHETS, and the bones of the INHABITANTS of Jerusalem, out of their graves:” And theySHALL SPREAD THEM BEFORE THE SUN, AND THE MOON, AND ALL THE HOST OF HEAVEN,

PRAYER BEADS.The ANCIENT NINEVITES of Babylon used PRAYER BEADS and repetitious prayers to their gods.

BAAL MUSIC

BEFORE THE FALL, LUCIFER WAS THE CHIEF MUSICIAN OF HEAVEN. Ezekiel 28:13 “

10.A PARTY SPIRITExodus 32. The children of Israel were having an immoral PARTY around the Golden Calf.

LIQUOR/DRUNKENNESS

*Daniel 5:1-4, we see the party spirit and mocking God… “Belshazzar made a great feast…and DRANK WINE…

SENSUAL DANCING.

Exodus 32:19. The children of Israel DANCED NAKED around the Golden Calf. Salome’s dance before Herod.

PUBLIC NUDITY

*Exodus 32:25 says “Moses saw that THE PEOPLE WERE NAKED.”

CELEBRATING THE BIRTHDAYS OF THE SUN GODS

A MAJOR HOLIDAY for “Eostor”, the goddess of fertility, was celebrated in the spring. This originated with Ishtar the goddess of Babylon.

GODDESSES

The focus in Baal societies was the worship of their GODDESSES.

Baal societiest were MATRIARCHAL, FEMINIST SOCIETIES and their children were REBELLIOUS Isaiah 3:12

Baal societies worshipped THE MOTHER OF GOD

Babylon’s SEMARAMIS, the mother of Tammuz was proclaimed THE MOTHER OF GOD, referring to Tammuz.

MOTHER–CHILD WORSHIP

This started with Baal with the worship of Semaramis holding Tammuz in her arms.

WORSHIP OF THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN

*Jeremiah 44:25… “we will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN.” Baal worshipped goddesses. The 10 C’s. “Thou shalt have no other god before me.”

ADULTERY, FORNICATION, PROSTITUTION

*Jeremiah 5:7 *John 8:44 “Ye are of YOUR FATHER THE DEVIL, AND THE LUSTS OF YOUR FATHER YE WILL DO.”

Adultery, prostitution and homosexuality were the norm in Baal societies.

A PLEASURE SEEKING SOCIETY

*Hebrews 11:25-26 “Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy THE PLEASURES OF SIN for a season.”

HOMOSEXUALITY

*Genesis 19:1-15 Homosexuality was rampant in Sodom and Gomorrah. These were Baal cities.

IDOLATRY

When God declared He was a jealous God, He was referring to His hatred of idolatry. I Kings. 14:15, Exodus 34:4; 20 The 10 Commandments commands not to make any graven image.

They worshipped GROVES which are TOTEM POLES

When the Bible talks about GROVES it was referring to IMAGES OF GODS STACKED ONE ON TOP OF the OTHER as in a totem pole.

THE CROSS SYMBOL

They worshipped symbols of the cross, including the Maltese cross.

BAAL worshippers did NOT CONFESS THEIR SINS. They did not believe in God’s commandments, but FELT TOTALLY SECURE LIVING IMMORAL LIFESTYLES,

THEY LET IT BE KNOWN THAT THEY FEARED NOTHING, NOTEVEN GOD

They were very SUPERSTITIOUSActs 17:22

Baal Temples and symbols were placed on the highest hills or mountains of a city. THE HIGH PLACES. I Kings 14:23

HATRED AND MURDER

*John 8:44 “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a MURDERER from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him.” The Bible says Hatred is the same as Murder. Murder begins with hatred.

LYING

*John 8:44 “Ye are of your father the devil, …for HE IS A LIAR, AND THE FATHER OF IT.”

FALSE WITNESSESMark 14:59

DECEITFUL

*Revelation 20:10 “And THE DEVIL that DECEIVED THEM”.

CORRUPTION

*Genesis 6:11-12 “THE EARTH ALSO WAS CORRUPT before God,

GAMBLINGObadiah 1:11,

Mark 15:24 “And when they had crucified him, they parted his garments, CASTING LOTS upon them, what every man should take.”

PRIDEEzekiel 16:56, I John 2:16

BEAUTY. Satan was full of pride because of his beauty. Luke 11:39 “And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees MAKE CLEAN THE OUTSIDE of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.”

*Psalms 74:20 “for THE DARK PLACES OF THE EARTH are full of THE HABITATIONS OF CRUELTY.”

HUMAN SACRIFICE

*Jeremiah 19:4-5 “They have built also the high places of Baal, to BURN THEIR SONS WITH FIRE FOR BURNT OFFERINGS UNTO BAAL, ”

*2 Kings16:3, 21:6, Satan is the god of this world and he has always DEMANDED HUMAN BLOOD. A Baal society is unmerciful.

*2 Corinthians 4:4 “In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not.” Abortion is a form of human sacrifice. Satan is the god of this world.

The beliefs and doctrines of Baal are totally opposite and hostile to The Ten Commandments.

A DEMONIC, PERVERTED ANOINTING

*Ezekiel 28:14 Referring to Lucifer,“Thou art THE ANOINTED CHERUB that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.”

THE DEIFICATION AND WORSHIP OF MAN

*Acts 7:41 Baal worshipped believed that man was a god.

CIVILIZATION WAS MEASURED BY DEVELOPMENT, ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE, AND THE ARTS, not by behavior

BAAL BELIEVED IN THE 100% SOVEREIGNTY OF THE GODS

They believed that one’s life was destined by fate, the stars, and the gods alone. Baal followers believed their lives were controlled by the zodiac, the stars; therefore, they had no personal responsibility for their actions.

TRANSUBSTANTIATION

The practice of Transubstantiation is one of the oldest practices of ancient religions. It is known as “Eating the god”. Transubstantiation was practiced by many tribes in many nations. This concept came from CANNIBALISTIC societies. In Canaan, to become a priest of Baal, one had to eat “human flesh”. CANNIBAL came from the root word Cahna-Baal. Human sacrifice was THE COMMUNION OF BAAL. The word “host” came from the original meaning of “sacrifice” or “victim”. As a part of the Baal COMMUNION, the priests of Baal would hold up A SUN DISC WAFER on a pole and offer it to Baal.

TATTOOING AND BODY PIERCING

*Leviticus19:28 “Ye shall NOT MAKE ANY CUTTINGS IN YOUR FLESH…NOR PRINT MARKS UPON YOU:”

Baal required that men cut and torture themselves as a form of atonement and worship. Tattoos and body piercing are indicators of Baal.

REINCARNATION

The belief of reincarnation came from Babylon, when Semaramis said Nimrod was reincarnated as the sun. (They believed that he had been born again as the sun).

CREMATION

We first hear about cremation when Nimrod’s body was cremated, and his ashes spread throughout the Babylonian empire.

ANTI- SEMITIC (JEW) AND ANTI-ISRAEL

*2 Chronicles 20:29 “And the fear of God was on all the kingdoms of those countries, when they had heard that the LORD fought against THE ENEMIES OF ISRAEL.”

ALTARS TO BAAL

*Isaiah 17:8 “And he shall NOT LOOK TO THE ALTARS,”

DEBT

*Deuteronomy 28:12 “thou SHALT NOT BORROW.”

PRACTICE A POSITIVE CONFESSION

Witches and wizards in witchcraft use their words to control people and events.

*Isaiah 14:12-14 “How art thou fallen from heaven, O LUCIFER, son of the morning! For thou HAST SAID IN THINE HEART, I WILL ASCEND INTO HEAVEN, I WILL EXALT MY THRONE ABOVE THE STARS OF GOD: I WILL BE LIKE THE MOST HIGH.”

BAAL FOLLOWERS OPERATE WITH A HUMANISTIC FAITH

At the Tower of Babel: *Genesis 11:6 “And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now NOTHING WILL BE RESTRAINED FROM THEM, WHICH THEY HAVE IMAGINED TO DO.”

They did not do things by Faith in God, but by the power of THEIR HUMAN SPIRIT; the power of POSITIVE THINKING; FAITH IN THEMSELVES, of what they could do.

BAAL USES AND PERVERTS THE BIBLE

*Matthew 4:5-6 “Then THE DEVIL taketh setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: FOR IT IS WRITTEN,” Perverts the scriptures.

SECURITY CONSCIOUS

*Luke 12:18-19 “THOU HAST MUCH GOODS LAID UP FOR MANY YEARS; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.”

MATERIALISM

*Daniel 5:1-4 “…praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood.”

*1 Timothy 6:10 “For the love of money is the root of all evil:”

BELIEF IN A TRANSITIONAL PLACE AFTER DEATH

*1 Corinthians 15:29 “Else what shall they do which are BAPTIZED FOR THE DEAD. This also is linked with burning candles for the dead which began at Babylon with Nimrod.

*Isaiah 8:19-20 CONDEMNS PRAYING TO THE DEAD. “And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God: FOR THE LIVING TO THE DEAD?”

In Baal religions WOMEN SUFFERED A HARD LIFE AND WERE NOT HONORED. They were bought and sold like cattle.

DOMES were put on their temples. Theyare half-arches representing the visible heavens. A dome, astrologically portrays itself as an image of the spiritual world above a city.

ARCHESrepresents the pathway of the sun which are made to look similar to an obelisk.

SIRIUS, is aFIVE POINTED STAR. Sirius was considered the embodiment of ISIS, the Egyptian goddess, their Queen of Heaven. Sirius was granted god or goddess status among the Egyptian and Babylonians. SIRIUS WAS ASTRONOMICALLY THE FOUNDATION EGYPT’S ENTIRE RELIGIOUS SYSTEM.

It is a high symbol of spirituality. It is used in astrology and the horoscope. It used by the Masons, and is on many national flags.

The FIVE POINTED STAR is also known in Wicca witchcraft as the PENTAGRAM

*43 “Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and THE STAR of your godRemphan, FIGURES which ye made to worship them:” *Acts 7:39, 42, 43 “To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,”

In Baal societies they use SYMBOLS OF CORN AND WHEAT in their worship

In Baal they WORSHIPPED THE VIRGIN the goddess Ashteroth.

Astrologers see the constellation Virgo, as The Beautiful Virgin. This identified with Isis, Fatima and the Virgin Mary.

HOLIDAYS. The word holidays came from the pagans’holy days when they venerated the sun gods, etc. That explains why even on religious holidays they are days of excessive drinking and fornication.

WORLD DOMINATION

*Revelation 13:14-15 “And DECEIVED THEM THAT DWELL ON THE EARTH.”…and will cause ALL to worship him.

When SATAN TEMPTED JESUS, he said “If you will fall down and worship me, I will give you all the riches and power over the kingdoms of the earth.” Jesus said, “Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. Get thee behind me Satan.”

What will you say to Satan’s temptation for money and power? Don’t be deceived by Satan, the god of this world. Ye shall serve the Lord and Him alone shall you serve.